Hat-fastener.



H. J. YORTY. HAT FASTENBR. APPLIOATION rum) MAR a, 1911.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

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COLUMBIA PLANOOIAIN 60., WASHINGTON. D- C- HARVEY J. YORTY, OF PAWPAW, ILLINOIS.

HAT-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 8, 1911.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912. Serial No. 613,082.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARVEY J. YORTY, citizen of the United States, residing at Pawpaw, in the county of Lee and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in devices for use in fastening womens hats, and the invention has for its primary object an improved construction of hat pin and holdin devices therefor, by the use of which a lunt or rounded end pin may be used, thereby precluding the liability of injuring the wearers scalp.

With these and other objects in view, as will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain constructions, arrangements and combinations of the parts that I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a sectional view partly in side elevation of a hat fastening device constructed in accordance with my invention.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawing, by the same reference characters.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a hat pin 1 which may be provided at one end with a head 2, of any character or ornamentation, the other end of the pin being blunt, as shown. In connection with the pin 1 I use holding devices therefor designed to be secured to the opposite sides and interior wall of a hat, one of said holding devices, designated 3, being in the form of a relatively narrow open-ended tube, preferably tapered, as shown, and secured in one sideof the hat, preferably by penetrating the same. The outer end of the tube 3 is preferably flared or of bell-shape, as indicated at 4:, whereby to facilitate the insertion of the blunt end of the pin 1. At the opposite side of the hat, I employ a corresponding tube, designated 5, said last named tube being secured in the hat in any desired way and being provided at its inner end with a relatively large bell-shaped mouth 6,

whereby the user may easily find the entrance to the tube 5 by feeling for it with the end of the pin 1. If desired, the tube 5 may terminate in a pointed stem 7, so as to give the appearance of the projecting pointed end of an ordinary hat pin.

In the preferred construction of the parts, the stem 7 is made a separate element, detachable from the tube 5, whereby said stem may not only be used to facilitate the operation of passing the tube 5 into the wall of the hat, but also used when telescoped with the tube 3 to render easy the operation of causing the last named tube to enter the wall of the hat.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawing, the operation of my improved hat fastening device will be apparent. In the practical use of the invention the holding devices are secured in place in the opposite sides of the hat, and it will then be easy for the user to insert the blunt-ended pin 1 which will be held securely in place by frictional engagement with the walls of the tube or holding device.

It will be at once appreciated that by the use of the device as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawing, the wearers scalp will not be exposed to the injury that is incidental to the use of a sharp pointed hat pin.

It is to be understood that in addition to the function of the pointed stem 7 as a fastening and penetrating device, it also serves to give the hat the same appearance as is produced by the ordinary sharp pointed hat pin.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is Means for fastening a hat, embodying a pin holding device provided with an opening for the insertion of a hat in and formed with a bulged end adapte to be thrust through a hole in the side of a hat to hold the device in position, and a hollow pointed stem of a size to form said hole and adapted to be detachably secured to the bulged end of the pin holding device.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature in presence 0 two witnesses.

HARVEY J. YORTY. [L.s.]

Witnesses:

S. T. BEALE, A. C. MoBRmE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G." 

